My Reds look to have pitching problems-AGAIN! Milton-Trade him.Griffey will play a few games and end up once again as the muti-million bench-warmer

Well, the NL Central is tough. But, the Reds do have 2 quasi-studs at the top, which is more than most other teams have. Arroyo and Harang is a pretty damn decent 1-2. Look at the rest of that division. Astros have just Oswalt. Cubs have Zambrano though I think Rich Hill is going to emerge big time. Pittsburgh has got dick. Milwaukee has Sheets/Capuano which is equal to the Reds. St. Louis has got nothing after Carpenter.

So, I think the Reds actually are tied for the best starting staff in the division with the Cubs and Brewers.

I'm gonna have to see Dice-K abuse someone other than the Royals before I board his bandwagon.

Yeah... ooooh, he managed to beat the Royals. Big friggin' deal. He looked good, but I've seen a lot of bad pitchers (*cough* Carlos Silva *cough*) look great against the Royals. It will be interesting to see how he fares in that first trip to Yankee Stadium, that's for sure.

I'm fairly positive about my Twins so far... but now we see the ugly side. Silva and Ponson vs. the White Sox this weekend? I have a feeling we're going to lose a LOT of games at the back end of the rotation this year if we're force to stick with those two.

I know I'm biased here, but I liked what I saw - bad opposition or not. The Royals are still a major league baseball team and they did slap around Schilling three nights before. He had good command, his pitches had excellent movement and he didn't seem to be phased by nerves, hordes of media and the immense pressure Boston (both fans and media) puts on the Red Sox. I'm not ready to annoint him the next Cy Young, but for a first MLB start he looked great. Like Jeff said, the true test will be when he faces the Yankees and some of the other power line ups in the AL like Toronto, Cleveland, White Sox and Detroit.